Cornelius Vanderbilt turned to railways. After establishing a steamship line in New York in the late 1820s, he started his own business in the late 1830s and operated ferry lines throughout the ...
Vanderbilt’s early career was spent working for his father’s business and moving into leadership ... hired Vanderbilt as his ferry captain in 1817. In 1794, Cornelius Vanderbilt was born in Port ...